John Ruskin Quotes
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
John Ruskin
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
Madison Smartt Bell
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
Frances Farmer
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Aaron Eckhart
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
Taki Theodoracopulos
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
Adam Baldwin
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
Abraham Verghese
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
Jackie Robinson
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I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.
Kirk Cameron
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Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.
Barbara Mikulski
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I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
Jamie Blackley
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
John Ruskin